Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky
Three Onegin Dances
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Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky
Three Onegin Dances
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky
- Editor Wil van der Beek
- Series The Great Classics
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- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher De Haske Publications
- Order no. DHP1012918-010
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Description:
Tchaikovsky is best known for his purely instrumental compositions. However, we must not underestimate him as a composer of operas. Many of his operas such as ¬Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin are still performed regularly throughout the world. Eugene Onegin (also called Jevgeny Onegin), composed in 1877-1878, was not called an opera by Tchaikovsky himself, but 'lyric scenes'. The work is entirely dominated by lyricism. However, there are two moments that contrast sharply with this lyricism: two ball scenes, for which Tchaikovsky wrote a waltz and a polonaise. After opening with a less well-known allegro dansant, this arrangement features the aforementioned waltz, which can be considered a beautiful Russian equivalent of the Faust Waltz by Charles Gounod. In the opera, this waltz is actually played by a military band. The arrangement concludes with the pompous polonaise (also mentioned above) which opens the last act: the ideal music to characterize high aristocracy in the salon of a palace in St. Petersburg.